Spiderman Hacks the Fields of Cryptocurrency, Econometrics and Data Science

If you are participating in the Academia Datathon 2018, or just wanna be a crypto superhero forecasting cryptocurrency prices, this article was made just for you! It is a quick reference to tons of materials to get you started on the topic.

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If you are participating in the Academia Datathon 2018, or just wanna be a crypto superhero forecasting cryptocurrency prices, this article was made just for you! It is a quick reference to tons of materials to get you started on the topic.

We first start with the tips for the Level 1 assignment.

If you want to learn:

How to create an ARIMA model with Python and what an ARIMA model is;

What Moving Average smoothing is and how to do it in Python;

How to smooth time series in Python using the Kalman filter

How to forecast time series with LSTM Recurrent Neural Networks in Python

Here is another short example of forecasting Bitcoin prices with ARIMA in R.

An academic paper by two researchers from Universiti Utara Malaysia employing an ARIMA(2,1,2) model in Eviews can be read here.

Another short and informative article discussing Bitcoin prediction with ARIMA(1,1,0) can be found on the website catering to professional investors and traders SeekingAlpha.

Moving beyond pure autoregressive models, the author of this article predicts the Nem cryptocurrency price by building an ARIMAX model that uses Iota historical price combined with other macroeconomic covariates such as Google search frequency of the word “Nem price” and “Nem” subreddit subscription growth data. You can read further how to employ the Pytrends API, Yahoo Financials API and how to scrape redditmetrics.com.

In this academic paper, two researchers from MIT develop a model for predicting not the exact price/return of the Bitcoin, but rather the price state, i.e. increase, decrease or no change. They build simple, scalable and real-time algorithms that achieve a high return on average Bitcoin investment.

The page Medium.com hosts a collection of short articles called ‘Forecasting crypto using Artificial Intelligence’ that may give you some insight into various technical trading strategies applied to cryptocurrencies such as moving averages.

In this article on Steemit.com the author discusses several time series to which the price of Bitcoin may be correlated and builds simple ARIMAX models with each of them.

The ARIMA models try to forecast the conditional mean of the time- eries. Financial time series notoriously are characterized by heteroskedasticity or volatility clustering – a day with a big price change often is followed by another. To account for this, you might model the conditional variance by employing a GARCH model. Take a look at these articles covering the application of GARCH models to cryptocurrency time series:

This academic paper compares several GARCH models and finds that the best model for Bitcoin is the AR-CGARCH model;

This paper fits 12 GARCH models to each time series of 7 cryptocurrencies, and the authors find that IGARCH and GJRGARCH models provide the best fits.

The authors of this paper compare several alternative distributions employed by the GARCH models and find that a heavy-tailed distribution performs better than the standard normal distrubition.

This paper focuses on forecasting daily Bitcoin volatility in R using GARCH models with intraday data. The author has provided their code on Github.

This Msc thesis applies deep learning in predicting the Bitcoin price. The author finds that deep learning models such as the RNN and LSTM are evidently effective learners on training data with the LSTM more capable for recognising longer-term dependencies. Both models outperform an ARIMA model.

Two researchers from ETH construct a generative temporal mixture model of the Bitcoin volatility and trade order book data, which is able to outperform the current state-of-the-art machine learning and time-series statistical model.

Something more about Time-Series

You may also want to acquaint yourself with these excellent step-by-step guides on time-series forecasting:

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